IC 1795 The Fishhead Nebula

Posted on May 2, 2024  •  1 minutes  • 117 words

图文来源自：nasa. copyright: Roberto Colombari

To some, this nebula looks like the head of a .However, really features clouds in IC 1795,a star forming region in the northern .The nebula’s colors were created by adopting thefor mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen, hydrogen,and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and furtherblending the data with images of the region recorded throughbroadband filters.Not far on the sky from the famous in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805,the , as part of a that lieat the edge of a large molecular cloud.Located just over 6,000 away, the largerstar forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm ofour .At that distance, IC 1795 would about 70 light-yearsacross.